Crawfish Synonyms

krôfĭsh
Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crayfish
  2. crawdad
  3. crustacean
  4. crawdaddy
  5. ecrevisse
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crayfish
  2. spiny-lobster
  3. langouste
  4. rock-lobster
  5. sea crawfish
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. retreat
  2. pull back
  3. back-out
  4. back-away
  5. crawfish-out
  6. pull in one's horns
  7. withdraw

Words Related to Crawfish

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Crawfish Sentence Examples

  • Blind crawfish (Cambarus pellucidus)inhabit the Crawfish Spring.

  • Ortmann has traced the centre of dispersal of the fresh-water Crawfish genera Cambarus, Potamobius and Cambaroides to eastern Asia, where their common ancestors lived in Cretaceous time.

  • The menu includes a variety of jambalayas, crawfish, catfish, and po'boys.

  • Have your oysters raw, boiled, chargrilled or fried, along with shrimp, crab claws, catfish and crawfish.

  • Some catfish, shad, smelt, halibut, herring, perch, sturgeon, flounders, oysters, clams, crabs and crawfish are also obtained from Oregon waters.

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